Basil was dead.
1 seconds sound clip from the The Picture of Dorian Gray movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:15:18.800 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Panic seized him. He felt like a hunted animal, cornered, desperate.
- It was as if the painting had sweated a dew of blood.
- He felt that he had struck a mortal blow, not only at his friend but at himself.
- It seemed to him unbearable that what he had done could never be undone.
- Men were strangled in England for what he had done. And yet what evidence was there against him?
- Basil had left the house at 11. No one had seen him come in again.
- Most of the servants were at Selby. His valet had gone to bed.
- Paris. It was to Paris that Basil had gone by the midnight train as he had intended.
- I'm sorry to wake you, Francis. I forgot my latchkey.
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